Welcome to AI Exchange @ UVA

A space for exploring AI in teaching, research, personal productivity & operations across Grounds.

Sep 04, 2025

Our mission is simple: to keep the UVA community informed, engaged, and inspired as we navigate this transformation together.

🛠️ Download: The AI for Academic Excellence Student Toolkit

To kick things off, we’re launching the AI for Academic Excellence Toolkit — a practical guide created by McIntire AI Experts, including our AI Guides, to help your students use AI responsibly and effectively.

Inside, you’ll find:

✅ Rules of thumb for aligning AI use with UVA’s Honor System.
✅ Principles & practices for keeping your voice and creativity at the center.
✅ Workflows for many contexts — from essays and case studies to coding, presentations, and data analysis.
✅ Prompting strategies to get sharper, clearer results.

👉 Key idea: AI is most powerful when it sharpens your thinking, amplifies your productivity, and strengthens your unique perspective — not when it replaces them.

Coming Soon: Faculty Voices and AI Research Toolkit

AI Tutors in the Classroom: Professor Jill Mitchell and Professor Roger Martin, who will share how they’re weaving AI into the Foundations of Financial Accounting course — and what it reveals about the future of AI in higher education.

Research Excellence Faculty Toolkit: AI research tools help faculty, staff, and students accelerate discovery by supporting data analysis, coding, visualization, literature reviews, and writing. When used responsibly, they enhance productivity, sharpen insights, and expand the scope of inquiry.

🚀 What to Expect Going Forward

Every two weeks: A fresh UVA-focused newsletter & podcast.
Focus areas: Using AI for teaching, research, personal productivity, and operations.
Hot AI topics: Tool highlights, strategies, and real-world use cases.
Faculty voices: Stories and experiments happening right here on Grounds.

This is just the beginning of our exchange. We look forward to learning with you and building a community where ideas, experiments, and insights can circulate freely. Please feel free to reach out with any ideas!

Let’s explore together,
Ryan Wright
Varun Korisapati

Upcoming AI Events

AI + Environment RIG
🗓 September 25, 2025 | 1:00–2:00 PM | Online
The Environment + AI Research Interest Group (RIG) is an interdisciplinary community of UVA faculty exploring how artificial intelligence can help understand, manage, and mitigate environmental and climate challenges — and how these technologies impact people, places, and the planet.
🔗 Learn more

OVPR Symposium Series: Frontiers in Clinical AI
🗓 September 17, 2025 | 1:00 PM | Leonard Sandridge Auditorium
Join the Office of the Vice President for Research for a symposium on how artificial intelligence and machine learning are driving medical innovation and transforming clinical practice.
🔗 Learn more